Season 3, while a distant second to Season 1 in quality, is the most consistent season of AYAOTD. The beginning of the season introduces Tucker as a new member of the Midnight Society after the departure of David. Tucker would be the only member to return in Seasons 6 and 7, and is surprisingly one of the best story tellers of the group. Season 3 also contains many of the series' more notable guest stars.
27. "The Midnight Ride" *** - A teen moves to the famous town of Sleepy Hollow and as part of a dare, and to impress a girl, he heads into the woods on Halloween to retrieve the pumpkin head of the Headless Horseman and encounters the ghost of Ichabod Crane and the Horseman himself.
28. "Apartment 214" ** - A girl and her mother move into an apartment next door to a lonely old woman. Once the girl begins making friends her own age, she breaks a promise that she made to the old woman and holy shit, watch the fuck out ...
29. "Watcher's Woods" *** - Two girls who disdain each other are paired up as hiking partners at summer camp, get lost in the woods and encounter three witches.
30. "The Phone Police" ***** - Two friends with no lives spend all their time making prank calls, and one of their sisters invents a story about the Phone Police who find prank callers and make them disappear forever. In disbelief, the boys continue in their sin only to find out the Phone Police do exist. This episode may get lost in translation with today's generation of kids, as making anonymous phone calls is nigh impossible these days. Legend has it that Weird Al Yankovic's "Phony Calls," a parody of TLC's "Waterfalls," was inspired by this episode.
31. "The Dollmaker" *** - A girl discovers that her friend who disappeared may be trapped inside of a dollhouse.
32. "The Bookish Babysitter" **** - Ricky is a couch potato whose single mother must go out for the evening, probably to turn tricks on the avenue, and leaves him with an eccentric (and strangely attractive) babysitter who insists that she can get Ricky to read a book. Ricky's ADD handicap prevents him from finishing any of the books he begins, but little does he know that by leaving the stories unfinished he's opened up the worlds of the books and a witch, ghost and armored knight puruse and try to kill him.
33. "The Carved Stone" *** - A girl desperate for friends purchases a stone from Sardo's magic shop and travels back in time.
34. "The Guardian's Curse" *** - A sister and brother (played by Danny Cooksey from "Salute Your Shorts" ) are the children of a single father trying to balance work and raising a family. When their father, an historian at a museum, finally finds time to take them skiing, the sarcophagus of a legendary Egyptian queen is brought into the museum, further postponing their vacation and putting them in the way of an ancient curse ...
35. "The Curious Camera" **** - Eddie Kaye Thomas (who would later become most famous for fucking Stiffler's mom) stars as a geeky high schooler who is given a cursed camera by a jaded photographer. The curious thing about this camera is that doom comes to anyone it takes a picture of.
36. "The Dream Girl" **** - A young man who works at a bowling alley with his sister discovers a school ring and begins having dreams about a beautiful girl only to find out the girl of his dreams is actually a ghost. While the twist in this one becomes pretty obvious about halfway through, the acting, especially at the end, is phenomenal. How this episode didn't get an Emmy is beyond me. Not gonna lie, this one actually made me cry.
37. "The Quicksilver" **** - Two brothers move into a house haunted by two ghosts; one a restless evil spirit; the other that of a girl who died trying to get rid of the evil spirit. Tatyana Ali (Ashley Banks from "Fresh Prince of Bel-Air") plays both the benevolent ghost and her living sister.
38. "The Crimson Clown" **** - An older brother threatens his manipulative younger brother with a story about a clown that reaps karma on those who do wrong. While only a story to the older brother, the younger brother encounters a nightmarish experience. Like "Tale of Laughing in the Dark," this one is not for coulrophobics.
39. "The Dangerous Soup" **** - A hardened teen and a restaurant hostess (played by Neve Campbell) discover the sinister secret of head chef Dr. Vink's addictive and expensive soup.
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